If you are selling draught beer in your taproom for on-site consumption and also making it available for takeaway through growlers or any other means, you can pay draught relief rates on the volume sold for on-site consumption and only pay the extra non-draught rates on any volume eventually sold for takeaway.
There are a couple of ways to manage this in Breww so that you can take advantage of paying the draught relief on whatever was sold for on-site consumption rather than simply paying the non-draught rates on your taproom casks and kegs or paying the draught-relief rate and refusing takeaway sales.
Both methods involve triggering the draught-relief qualifying stock to become duty-paid, either by invoicing the stock or moving it to a non-bonded location. Then re-packaging that stock and invoicing the takeaway stock that doesn’t qualify for draught relief and any remaining part-filled casks and kegs that do qualify for draught relief.
Breww will then automatically recognise that both the part-filled cask and keg stock sold (which represents the pints sold on-site) and your smallpack growler products (that represent your off-site sales) are duty-paid at the same rate and will adjust your duty return to account for the volume that should have been paid at the draught rate and how much should have been paid at the non-draught rate.
Invoice and return
- Raise a zero-value invoice for stock sold to your Taproom customer and dispatch it. This will trigger that stock to become duty-paid, will take it out of stock and add the duty owed to your duty return.
- At a regular period (daily, weekly, monthly), you can review how many non-draught sales were made in your taproom. This data can usually be easily retrieved from your POS by pulling a report on sales by product, or if your POS platform is integrated with your Breww account, but pulling a report of Sales by product in Breww. You only need the data on non-draught sales, i.e. growler sales, and not draught relief qualifying sales, i.e. pints for on-site consumption.
- Return enough casks and kegs from your completed Taproom orders to cover the volume of non-draught sales in that period.
- Now package from the returned containers the required products that were sold for takeaway. You can easily do this in bulk by going to Containers → Actions → Rack from containers, selecting the casks returned from your Taproom orders, and then selecting the smallpack growler product and how many you sold.
- You will then need to assign a part-filled product to your part-filled keg and casks. You can follow how to do this in our How do I sell a part-filled container? help guide.
- Now, raise an order to your Taproom customer for the packaged growlers and the part-filled casks and kegs that were racked from (if any remain).
Non-bonded “Taproom” site
- First, set up a non-bonded “Taproom” site where you can move casks and kegs that have been physically sent to your taproom. You can do this by going to Settings → Sites and locations → New site. Make sure you set the Default bonded status to Non-bonded.
- Whenever you physically move stock to your taproom, move it to this site. As the site is non-bonded, whenever duty-suspended beer is transferred to it, the stock will become duty payable, and your duty return will be updated.
- At a regular period (daily, weekly, monthly), you can review how many non-draught sales were made in your taproom. This data can usually be easily retrieved from your POS by pulling a report on sales by product, or if your POS platform is integrated with your Breww account, but pulling a report of Sales by product in Breww. You only need the data on non-draught sales, i.e. growler sales, and not draught relief qualifying sales, i.e. pints for on-site consumption.
- Now package the required products that were sold for takeaway. You can easily do this in bulk by going to Containers → Actions → Rack from containers, selecting the casks and kegs at your Taproom site, and then selecting the smallpack growler product and how many you sold.
- Once the required growlers have been racked, you can then sell the Taproom site stock to your Taproom customer. Make sure to assign the order to your Taproom site.
Although these methods will both work to help you save as much as possible on your duty return, how breweries use the new draught relief in their taprooms is still a bit uncertain. With that in mind, we fully expect to make improvements to this area as feedback and suggestions come in, and we’re keen to make the process easier and more intuitive 